The visitors of the Alte and Neue Museum in Berlin 1830 -1880

柏林旧和新博物馆的参观者 1830 年 -1880 年

• 批准号: 376429796
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Bernhard Graf
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Museumsforschung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/376429796?language=en
• 关键词: visitors; Alte; Neue; Museum; Berlin

While we are by now well-informed about the architecture, the history of the collections and their presentation in the first two Museums to be built in Berlin, the Alte and the Neue Museum, as well as the ideas underlying their foundation, the opposite is the case with our knowledge of the visitors to these institutions at that time. This is especially the case with the initial period. This leads to the subject of this research project. The aim is to identify the visitors of the two first Art Museums in Berlin, the Alte (1822-1830) and the Neue Museum (1841-1859), in their original museum layout. The issues intend to discuss are, who were these museum arrangements at the Alte and Neue Museum aimed at and how were they perceived by the visitors? The second object is to discover out whether the public for the museum came predominantly from a cultural elite or whether attendance also included representatives of less well-off social classes. With regard to the contents of the study, the main question is the extent to which the museums lived up to their principled humanist programme and the means they used to approach their public.The opposite side of the question will also be explored, namely the degree to which visitors responded to the possibly pedagogical concerns of the museum officials, what exhibits appealed to them in particular and whether these preferences changed over time and, if so, why and when. This approach should result in a comprehensive history of the reception of the original layout of the first two Art Museums in Berlin.Because the collections of the applied arts, the prehistoric and the ethnographic collections were outsourced from the Neue Museum from the 1880s onwards, resulting in drastic encroachments on the original concepts, this project will concentrate on the period between 1830 and 1880.The studies at our disposal show that the museum officials of both the Alte and Neue Museum in Berlin were persuaded of the morally uplifting function of their museum layouts. This research proposal aims at a systematic examination of these high moral claims, something that has hitherto not been carried out.This study will provide important new information for international historians in the field of museum history, substantially adding to contemporary research into the public of these institutions.

虽然我们现在对柏林最早建成的两个博物馆--旧博物馆和新博物馆的建筑、藏品的历史和它们的展示以及它们的基础思想都了如指掌，但我们对当时参观这些机构的游客的了解却恰恰相反。在初期尤其如此。这就引出了这个研究项目的主题。其目的是确定柏林的两个最早的艺术博物馆，旧博物馆（1822-1830）和新博物馆（1841-1859）的游客，在他们原来的博物馆布局。打算讨论的问题是，旧博物馆和新博物馆的这些博物馆安排针对的是谁？游客如何看待它们？第二个目的是发现博物馆的公众是否主要来自文化精英，或者是否也包括不太富裕的社会阶层的代表。关于研究的内容，主要的问题是博物馆在多大程度上实现了其原则性的人文主义方案，以及它们用来接近公众的手段，也将探讨问题的另一面，即参观者对博物馆官员可能的教育关切的反应程度，什么展品特别吸引他们，这些偏好是否随时间而改变，如果是，为什么和何时改变。这种方法应该导致一个全面的历史接受的最初两个艺术博物馆在柏林的布局。因为收藏的应用艺术，史前和人种学收藏是外包从新博物馆从19世纪80年代起，导致严重侵犯了原来的概念，本项目将集中于1830年至1880年这段时期。我们掌握的研究表明，柏林旧博物馆和新博物馆的博物馆官员都被说服，相信他们的博物馆布局具有道德提升的功能。这项研究计划旨在系统地审视这些崇高的道德要求，这是迄今为止尚未进行的工作。这项研究将为博物馆史领域的国际历史学家提供重要的新信息，大大增加当代对这些机构的公众研究。